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Wine of the Week

Wine of the Week

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Fredric Koeppel
Oct 03, 2011
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Probably all writers about wine use one or two terms more often than they should. One of my own forays into over-exposure is the word "lovely," by which I try to convey in a single adjective all the accumulation of delicacy, elegance, appeal, prettiness and balance that makes a wine so irresistible. "Lovely" is not "gorgeous"; the latter implies an ele…

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